Welcome to SOLT FIAT
The Family of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) is a congregation of priests, sisters, and lay apostles, including married deacons. All the members share a common spirituality, mission and vision, as they strive to imitate and live the life of Christ. Each vocation finds its identity as source in the Most Holy Trinity, and in their distinctiveness, they complement one another in the Charism which is the Ecclesial Teams.
Fr. James H. Flanagan, an Irish-American, is the founder of SOLT. His inner desire to follow Christ more intimately after the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary in relationship with the Trinity impelled him to do so.
After his ordination to priesthood on January 10, 1952, he sought permission from Cardinal Richard Cushing of the Archdiocese of Boston, Masachusetts. He was advised to work first in the pastoral ministry of the Archdiocese where he begun to know and have regular meetings with a group of parishioners searching for a deeper spirituality. Then, they visited Archbishop Edwin Byrne of Santa Fe, New Mexico who assigned them to work in the Indian reservation in Pena Blanca, New Mexico. Fr. Flanagan was requested from the Archdiocese of Boston to assume the spiritual direction of the group. On December 8, 1957, was assigned to work in the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish at Holman, New Mexico, in the Mora Valley with Fr. John McHugh.
On July 16, 1958, Archbishop Byrne established the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity as a Pious Society in his Archdiocese and guided the Society's progress until his death in 1982. In 1984, upon the invitation of the Most Rev. Charles Helmsing, the Society moved to Kansas City wherein various specialized ministries in other parts of the United States began to open up. Then the Society also began to expand and serve in different parts of the world, i.e., Central America, like Belize, Guatemala and Haiti, the Caribbean and England. At present, the society also serves in Russia, Italy and other Spanish-speaking countries.
In February 3. 1975, Fr. Thomas Gier, SOLT arrived in the Philippines to start the SOLT mission in the country upon the invitation of the late Bishop Teotimo Pacis of the Diocese of Legazpi. The man who was to become the first SOLT missionary in the Philippine with his lay companions, was given the Cagraray Island, the cradle of the SOLT mission in Asia.
Help us during this Year for Priests to live good lives by being close to him and his example. Grant that we may learn from the saintly Curé of Ars how to rest contentedly before the Holy Eucharist; to know that only your Word enlightens us each day; to know how tender is the love with which you welcome repentant sinners; how consoling is the confident abandonment to the care of the Holy and Immaculate Mother; how necessary is the ever-vigilant battle against Evil.
Jesus' words to the three disciples - "I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here and keep awake" - show that He was feeling "fear and anguish at that 'Hour', experiencing the ultimate profound solitude as God's plan was being accomplished. Jesus fear and anguish comprehend all the horror that man feels at the prospect of his own death, its inexorable certainty and the perception of the burden of evil which affects our lives"._-_WGA19138-1328176787.jpg)
"For man authority often means possession, power, dominion, success. For God, however, authority means service, humility, love. It means entering into the logic of Jesus Christ Who leans down to wash the feet of His disciples, Who seeks man's authentic good, Who heals wounds, Who is capable of a love so great as to give His life, because He is Love. ... Let us trustingly invoke Most Holy Mary that she may guide our hearts always to draw from the well of divine mercy, which liberates and heals our human condition, filling it with all grace and benevolence, with the power of love".
Fr. Tito Ayo, SOLT Homily
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
